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Acknowledgements
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
ON TECHNOLOGY, AGRICULTURE, AND THE ARTS
1 - Tools with a Life of Their Own
Classy Tools
It’s the Energy, Silly
Peak Oil and the Limits of Technology
Staring at Techno-Collapse
2 - Fifty Million Farmers
Intensifying Food Production
The 21 Century: De-Industrialization
Examples and Strategies
The Key: More Farmers!
If We Do This Well
3 - (post-) Hydrocarbon Aesthetics
Designing for the Tragic Interlude of Cheap Abundance
Hydrocarbon Style: Big, Fast, and Ugly
Oh, To Be Hip Again
Manifesto for a Post-Carbon Aesthetic
ON NATURE’S LIMITS AND THE HUMAN CONDITION
4 - Five Axioms of Sustainability
History and Background
Five Axioms
Evaluation
5 - Parrots and Peoples
6 - Population, Resources, and Human Idealism
THE END OF ONE ERA, THE BEGINNING OF ANOTHER
7 - The Psychology of Peak Oil and Climate Change
Explaining Our Incomprehension
Acceptance and Beyond: Peak Oil Grief
Collective PTSD
A Model for Explanation and Treatment: Addiction and Dependency
Proactive Application: Social Marketing
8 - Bridging Peak Oil and Climate Change Activism
Differing Perspectives
Differing Recommendations
Supply Side, Demand Side
Common Ground
9 - Boomers’ Last Chance?
What Made the “Greatest Generation” Great
The “Me” Generation
The Boomers’ Defining Moments
The Path Taken
Another Fork in the Road
10 - A Letter From the Future
11 - Talking Ourselves to Extinction
Language and Religion
Grammar, Reason, Logic, and Evidence
Language and the Ecological Dilemma
Can Language Help Us Now?
Resources for Action
Notes
Index
About the Author
Copyright Page
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